Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Talk DK Metcalf to the Steelers, Davante Adams to the Rams, Garrett's Extension & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh it's coming at us hot and heavy. Now, I mean,
what's gonna happen between now and the end of the show.
We know that dk metcalf is a Steeler. We know
that Davante Adams is a ram. Who knows what's gonna
happen over the next three hours? Only one way to
find out Hang with us and we'll be all over it.

(00:25):
But I E from Salam would love to start with
the one that we woke up to, and that is
that Miles Garrett is a Cleveland Brown.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ha ha ha. I can't believe. I can't believe this.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
First of all, good evening, my brother hood evening man,
how you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm doing fantastic.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
But I'm so excited to be here talking to you
tonight as always. And I've used this analogy before. If
you're a parent, be careful what you threaten your kids with.
You better be ready to follow through. I'll never forget
this one. This one was funny and I overheard this
from another parent, And it's after waiting at a long
line to get all the way into Disneyland. And no doubt,

(01:06):
people come from all over the world to go to Disneyland,
and so you're all lined up and you've probably taken
out a loan in order to get into this place.
And you finally get in and the kids are excited,
and the kids start misbehaving, and the parent looks.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
At the kid and says, you shape up, or we're
going home.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
And I'm like, no, you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You're not going home.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You just spent twelve hundred to get in here. You're
not turning around and going home. Miles Garrett, you didn't
actually demand the trade.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
My god, we didn't even make it to the league year.
What kind of threat was that? What was that?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
If all you actually wanted was to really, really, really
get paid, then I don't even understand why this got
handled the way it got handled.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Now, look, I'll say this, I believe Miles Garrett wanted
to get traded. I believe Miles Garrett was being honest
when he had made the statement that he didn't want
to be a part of another rebuild. I believe that wholeheartedly. Now,
the thing about this is two things could be true.

(02:19):
He could have one hundred percent wanted out, But then
when someone comes to you and says, hey, how about
one hundred and twenty three and a half million guaranteed

(02:40):
on a new extension, and I'll put you right around
forty a year.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's quarterback class.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
And now I mean I can I can go through
a couple more years of rebuild.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, it's that's the end of your prime.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
It's oh, it's it. Yeah, But that's that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
It's literally money talks, right, that's an old adage, old
saying money talks. And no matter what was he going
to get that after being traded.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Today, we need to talk about this. This is what
I want to talk about because this is it. And
and maybe maybe you're the man to talk to because
I don't think that you've ever been paid forty.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Million dollars a year. No, but but I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Venture to guess, as a professional athlete and the incredible
successful person that you are, that you probably make a
lot more money than most of the people listening to
this show. And let me speak for a lot of
people who are sports fans when they when they say this, look,
what is really the difference between forty million a year

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and thirty five million a year? And I know the
answer is five million a year. And I know that's
a lot of money, But what I'm getting at is,
if you're gonna tell us, and he did publicly, if
you're going to say to us that what this is
about is avoiding a rebuild, and let's be honest, it's

(04:22):
also about what he didn't want to say publicly, which was,
I'd like to avoid being a part of the most
ridiculous organization in sports.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
For the rest of my life. I'd like to do that.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
The organization that made Deshaun Watson the highest paid person
in the history of this league. I'd like to not
be a part of that organization because I don't know.
I'd like to maybe retire someday with a couple of ws.
That's what you said, and I believed it because I
do think that there are athletes out there who are

(04:55):
like that. And if so, if that is actually your goal,
then someone needs to explain to me what it is
in Miles Garrett's life that he can now do for
forty million a year that he would not be able
to do for thirty five million a year and have
a much better experience and a chance for a game

(05:17):
that happens after New Year's Day for once in his
flip and life. Someone's got to explain that to me,
because I'm telling you, the average fan does not get that.
And I don't understand it either. Now I've never walked
in those shoes, but I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
I think when you're dealing, first of all, sports is
a business, and we all have feelings of.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Of you know, athletes and.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Loyalty and all of these things, whether it be from
the ownership, the team, the athlete. It's a business. And
in business, the most important thing is your financial windfall,
your compensation. So case in point five years ago, four

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years ago, when Deshaun Watson was on the market and
there were three teams vying for him, and his agent
was like, hey, you got to eliminate one of the teams.
I think it was at Atlanta. I think it was
the Cleveland and I can't remember who the other team was.

(06:36):
And so he said, all right, Thursday night he said,
all right, Cleveland, it's off the table, meaning they're out.
I'm going to decide between the other two right h
That next morning he had signed a record breaking contract
with Cleveland because he told them they were out, and

(06:59):
they all him two hundred and thirty million fully guaranteed.
Now we're in and that is business. That is business,
and that's what we just had here. It's business. I
don't want to be here anymore. I want to go.
I've wanted to spend my whole career here. I can't

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do another rebellion. I rebuild.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oo.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Okay, how about this.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
We're going to offer you more money than anyone would
offer you or anyone has ever gotten eclipse in what
Max Crosby just got two days ago.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
That's the point. That's business. And so.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
People can say one thing, but your accountant says something else.
And I feel this is one of those situations. We
saw it with Deshaun Watson. I'm telling you it happens.
Once you roll that check in front, then it changes.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Okay, I'm already here. We're established, kids are in.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
School, got a good place and fan base, and they
may be conversations of you know, what are they going
to do at quarterback and are we going is it
a rebuild or are we going to spend some more
money in free agency.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
We're gonna make it happen. Whatever that conversation is.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
That contract extension of one hundred and six point five
million for three years was enough for him to feel
comfortable staying in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
No worries, brother, no worries do you uh, don't ever
want anybody to make decisions that are not sound for themselves.
I have never ripped Kevin Durant in my life for
all of the decisions that he makes.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
So any free agent.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Like that's the cool thing, man, Anything that gets put
in front of you, you get to sign it.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I do think though it changes things.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Don't ever ever ever say into a microphone again that
you want to win.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
And I, by the way, I don't have a problem
with anybody, but he's signing any offer that gets put
in front of you if you want, As you said,
like those are fair points.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Kids are in school, we're here. We don't have to bring.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
About the unknown and all of the difficulties that go
into that and dragging out what was clearly going to
be a major fight like the Browns dug themselves into.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
So you want to avoid all that.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Great, great, But don't tell the public that, oh man,
I just want a chance to win.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
No, you don't, No, you don't.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
You want forty million a year to be the highest
paid non quarterback in the history of the NFL and
them's is good goals too.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So congrats.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
But I don't ever want to hear from Miles Garrett
ever again that he's all about winning, because that's just
a bunch of ball.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Now, I don't want to say bunch of ball.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
It's it can't be a bunch of bulls because he's
not playing not to win, He's not playing to win.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm sorry that was a four year extension.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
What kind of a chance do you get the Cleveland
Browns to win that division any point over the next
four years.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Listen to what I'm saying. Go ahead, Miles Garrett has
given you everything he's had. Absolutely, There's only been one
player who's had more sacks since they've been in the league,
not questioning his effort, and that's TJ. Watt not So
when you say he doesn't care about winning, you can't
say that because he is a winner and he plays
every play to win.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, But again, I'm going by his words. He did
not want to rebuild. He wanted to go somewhere where
he had a chance to win. That's not there, Like,
categorically and unequivocally, that's not there. If I had enough
money to bet every like, like all of the bets,

(10:53):
all of the chips in the middle of the table,
that Miles Garrett will not win a super Bowl over
this four year extension, Myles Garrett won't even win a
division over this next four year extension. Joe Burrow and
Lamar Jackson will be winning those divisions over the next
four years in that division. So I just again, I'm
sure what I'm saying sounds critical. The only criticism I

(11:16):
actually have today is you weren't true.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
To your word. And you know, money does that to people.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
You know, Nick Saban once upon a time absolutely was
not going to the NFL, and well now we're going
to the NFL, So like, I get it, different information,
different decision. But that was the flimsiest demand at a
high level that I can remember in a long time
in sports.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
If that's all that we're really.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Talking about, and I, as a fan, I do feel duped,
I do a little bit.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
It's like, wait a minute, you.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Said that the I got invited to a party that
was about a and when I arrived there, you were
actually serving water.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
You just want it, like you just wanted more money.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Like that's like that's the Jimmy Butler story. I don't
even have a problem if a guy just says that, no,
I want more money, Okay, okay, you're worth it.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Phenomenal player.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
But this whole journey, the last couple of months of like, boy,
here's a message to the fans. I'm gonna write a
letter and I just want to win and just want
a chance to oh my gosh, flimsy bunch of ball.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yeah, well, you know, I know it's not going to
change his effort. He's gonna be the top one or
two defensive ends in the entire league for sure as
long as he's playing. And now he's compensated for it.
So he said when he got to Cleveland, he wanted
to go from Cleveland to Canton, and now that's going

(12:58):
ring true.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, yeah, he can. Hell, he can just spend the
rest of his life in Ohio and be all set.
So again, the only thing he won't ever do is
go to January.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, you know, the Cleveland hasn't done enough outside of
him to really warrant them making a run, especially in
that division. The only team in the division without a quarterback,
so there's that. Well, you know, they.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Got wide receivers though, and we should talk about that
because you and I have had so many, I think,
just really fascinating conversations all year long about the wide
receiver market and kind of that whole thing. And so
DeVante Adams and DK Metcalf both changing teams today and
the money that comes along with it. Let's get into that.
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do you make of today's wide receiver moves, not just

(14:49):
DK metcalf fetching a second rounder, but also getting the
thirty million ap y on a five year deal with
the Pittsburg Steelers, who it feels like have been involved
with every wide receiver rumor for two years and finally
they've got their guy. There is something that I want
to laugh about with that trade request, but I want

(15:12):
to get your reaction first.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
What did you make of DK to Pittsburgh?

Speaker 5 (15:16):
I mean, I love it for him, I know he
wanted out, but then I also am weary because there's
no quarterback there, so you know, I don't know, you know,
if this was you know, I saw him going to
you know, of course Davante there, but you know, Rams Chargers,

(15:37):
somewhere where you had a quarterback that can you know,
get you back to where you've been.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
He's been a.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Tremendous one receiver receiver one you know this whole time,
and just going to a place where they're unsure at
the quarterback position, you know, just has me scratching my
head a little bit. I'm happy for him in terms
of the contract. He deserves it. He gets to go

(16:08):
and play with Mike Tomlin. I think that's always a plus.
But not having somebody to really throw the ball to you.
Not quite sure what the Stellers are going to do
at the quarterback position. I know they said they want
Justin Fields, but he's going to test the market, so
they could end up with neither Justin Fields or Russell Wilson.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Then what then, what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah? Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
The other thing that was funny though, like, yeah, he
wanted the money, he wanted out.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
The other thing I read and this was the one
that got me this morning.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm like, Okay, hold up, dude, You've never sounded more
like a wide receiver in your entire life than this
part of the trade request.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
I would like to go to a warm weather climate.
Oh do yet? Now?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Really?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
You'd like to go someplace nice, cozy my ties hmm, sir,
spot of tea and we bring you anything would you
like to Would you like us to feed you some
grapes while you run your routes? That that's funny. Come on, man,
that's funny. It's hysterical, and it's soft. It's completely soft.

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And then he ends up in Pittsburgh, the Black and
Blue division of the AFC.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Perfect not warm now, not.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Warm warm weather.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
What are we talking about? I mean, it's football. You
better be I don't even care if you do play
for the Dolphins. You better be ready to go win
in Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Right, that part to be ready, that part, that part.
But no, you're outside in the elements.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Brother.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
So uh, you know, thirty million a year I had
to make you. You know I could take the elements
for that.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
That's fine. It'd be warm in the car you drive
from the stadium in.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh my goodness. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
So the other thing about this though, and I like,
I'm trying to figure out if indeed the wide receiver
contract bubble has burst. You and I have long thought
it should. There have been moments this offseason where I
thought it did. The forty nine ers kind of leading
the way where they're like, we're out on Deebo Samuel

(18:36):
and by the way, we might be out on Brandon
Ayuk also, and they totally regret the deal that they
gave Ayuk, and I wonder how Dallas feels.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Ceedee Lamb is phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I fully get that Ceedee Lamb is phenomenal, But you stunk.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
You couldn't really play anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Your quarterback and your wide receiver have all the money,
and you couldn't even afford a running back.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
So like it feels like regret.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Is outweighing those who are happy with their purchases. They're
I'm on Ross Saint Brown's and they're Justin Jefferson's. And
then DeVante Adams. I get it, he's thirty two, but
he settles in at twenty three a year with the
Rams today. But then DK goes and gets thirty. And

(19:25):
DK's real good, real physical presence. But if we are
reserving thirty for the top, I don't know, call it
ten receivers in the game, I'm not putting DK on
that list.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Who's on it?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, okay, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase. I'm doing this now.
From the top of my head, I would pay. I'm
just gonna go receivers that I would pay before DK Metcalfkay, okay,
AJ Brown is one of them. I'm on Ross Saint
Brown is one of them.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I would say that.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Did I already mentioned I said Justin and Jamar, right, Okay,
I think I would pay Tyreek before him. I think
that I would pay Nico Collins before him.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
What go ahead.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Keep going, Drake London, Garrett Wilson.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Um hmmm.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I think that I would actually, based on first of all,
ceedee lamb.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Let's get Lamb in there. Okay, I think that.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
If I'm projecting forward right now, I would pay the
leak neighbors before DK.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, but you don't have to right now. Sold on
a second, yes I can.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
My statement was top ten.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
These are my that would be my that's that's my
that's my top ten you know, right well, I'm not done,
I'm here, Okay. I think Mike Evans is a better
receiver than DK Metcalf.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Wait a minute, what Mike Evans.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I don't know how old is Mike Evans. I'm pretty
sure he had better stats than DK.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Older than DK. Well, Mike Evans also has a quarterback
that's going to back thirty one. He's thirty one, thirty one,
thirty one.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, that's not dead.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
No no no, no, no no no no, all right, so
that's nine mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I like Terry McLaurin more than I like DK.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Ok Now, we're getting out why so so.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
So, by the way, and again if we're if we
are gonna, if you're gonna let me have neighbors, then
you know who else I want.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
I want my man in Uh, I want my man
in Jacksonville. I want Brian. I want Brian Thomas for sure.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Okay, sure, I'm not gonna give you Brian Thomas and
you neighbors.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
And I want and I want Garrett Wilson.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
They can't get. No, I'll take those three off. DK
comes before those three.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
How about Pooka and Nakua.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
I want Pooka, Pookah you can have you can have Pooka,
then you can have Pooka.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
So DK's the top eight wide receiver in the league. Yes, FYI,
all right, I get thirteen, So top thirteen? No, yeah,
get out of here. You know who was the top
one receiver in the league?

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yes, no, yes, in and out of breaks like no
one's business. Yes, that's one. Stephen fleet Feet, the Seger.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
Just lately older than thirty one. Maybe, my goodness, if
we have a lot of football tonight. It just didn't
end the news shall we recap. Let's start with Josh
Allen in Buffalo, as the Bills agree to a new
contract with him six years total, where two hundred and
fifty million dollars guaranteed. The Bills are releasing linebacker Von Miller.

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Seattle is trading wide receiver DK Metcalf to the Steelers.
Don't know if you heard that for a second rounder,
and Pittsburgh is giving him a five year extension. The
Seahawks gave linebacker Ernest Chose a three year extension. The
Rams agreed to a two year deal with wide receiver
DeVante Adams were twenty six million dollars guaranteed. The Browns
gave defensive end Miles Garrett an extension of four years

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with over one hundred and twenty million dollars guaranteed. The
Vikings resigned running back Aaron Jones. The Lions reportedly planned
to release pass rushers Darius Smith. The Patriots are signing
linebacker Harold Landry. The Chiefs resigned linebacker Nick Bolton. Why
all the NFL news, you may ask, Well, Wednesday is
the first day of the new league year. That's when

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the recent trades and signings all become official. That's when
wide receiver Deebo Samuel goes to Washington. For example, former
running back Eddie George in the new because he reportedly
is the new head coach at Bowling Green he's been
at Tennessee State. Christopher Bell was the NASCAR winner for
the third straight week. Denny Hamlin finished second in Phoenix.

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Kyle Larson was third. Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez will miss
the next six to eight weeks with a broken hand.
He'll have surgery for a fractured hammate bone. Russell Henley
took the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one stroke over Colin
Morikawa in Orlando. Sergio Garcia won the Live Golf Tournament
in Hong Kong by three strokes. Phil Mickelson was four

(24:31):
back in the NBA. Cleveland has won thirteen in a row,
their leading late first quarter at Milwaukee twenty nine to
twenty five. Today, Oklahoma City won again one twenty seven
to one oh three over Denver, forty points for Shay
Gilgess Alexander OKCS record fifty three and eleven. Phoenix was
a winner at Dallas one twenty five to one sixteen.

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Grizzly's mid third quarter up one at New Orleans seventy
four seventy three for the Pelican Zion Williams out for Rest.
Philadelphia is leading late second quarter sixty three fifty four
over the Utah Jazz. Luka Doncic of the Lakers questionable
for Monday with a sore back. Lebron James is out
with a string growing could miss at least one to
two weeks, Jason Tatum and the Celtics questionable with a

(25:14):
knee injury, Hawk's guard Trey Young questionable for Monday with
a bruce quad and of course New York star Jalen
Brunson out at least two weeks with a sprained ankle.
In women's hoops, we had conference tournament finals today. Fifth
rank South Carolina wins the SEC crown again, this time
beating number one Texas. UCLA finally beat usc That was

(25:35):
a top five matchup for the Big Ten title. No
more Pac twelve with those two. ACC had number eleven
Duke defeating a top ten NC State team and a
th ranked TCU won the Big twelve conference beating a
top twenty Baylor crew and to men's college basketball final
day of the regular season, Michigan State over Michigan seventy
nine sixty two, And we had conference tournament winners high

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Point in the Big South, lipskimb won at home in
the Atlantic Sun Drake over Bradley in Saint Louis for
the Missouri Valley Conference Crown, and we did, guys have
our first ticket punched to the dance. Last night when
let me get this right, SIUE defeated Simo. Of course, yeah,

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it turns out that's SIU Edwardsville, which had never been
to the NCAA tournament. They're going now. They beat first
place Southeast Missouri State. So last night I mentioned this
on the show. I looked it up. Who did they
play early season? For example, turns out SIU Edwardsville did
play Green Bay coach by Doug Gottlieb early in the

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season and got their clocks cleaned by green Bay eighty
two to fifty seven, a green Bay team that went
on to not win a single game for the next
three months after that contest. Also, last night we had
the Summit League Semifinals, notable because the winners were Almost
and St. Thomas, Minnesota. They're about to play each other

(27:03):
in the conference final in a half an hour Normally
you would say, hey, winner goes to the NCAA Tournament.
Not so fast. Saint Thomas, Minnesota is not yet eligible
for the NCAA Tournament. So Omaha, as a semi final
winner last night, has already punched its ticket to the
big dance. You see, Saint Thomas is trying to go

(27:23):
directly from Division three to Division one. The NCAA rule
is you have to have a four year probation period
and that doesn't end until after this season. They might
win the conference crown tonight and not go to the NCAAs.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Back to you, wow, do you notice?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, it's something that's amazing about college sports and
I love this, Like did you hear all the letters
of the alphabet that Steve just you may right, a
lot of different letters the alphabet, little quirks, little things.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
These teams are all.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Going to the college basketball National Championship. They're all going
but the very same NCAA, the very same conferences with
their football teams. We will freak out at the idea
of somebody who could be twelve and zero having an

(28:18):
opportunity to championship if they're not enough of a big boy.
But we let letters we've never heard of. In the
same sentence, go to the dance in basketball.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
That's a good point. You know how sacred football is.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know, and I know you don't get to like
play sixty three games over a three week period in football.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I understand. I understand that you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
But I do think there is a football version of this,
which they tried to do last year and a lot
of people lost their minds at the structure of it,
because that's what we do in college football. I think
there's a way to structure that where we get rid
of this, like.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
This exclusionary thing in football.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
If you're a little guy, if you're Boise State and
you get invited to the big dance, people get very offended.
But in basketball, we call it magical and we go, oh, Cinderella,
this is adorable. We think it's adorable in basketball because
we like to give him a chance.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Anything's possible, right right.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
We sing about it, Luther Vandros forever he will sing
about it.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
And football is.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Offensive, yeah, because what you don't want is a bad matchup.
You don't want blowout games. So you're like, yeah, Alabama
can't go against Northern Northwestern carry the seven.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, Tech University.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean, but you can again, we do it in basketball.
We just tuck it into like eleven in the morning
on a Thursday, but we do it.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
We do it. We let Duke play those teams.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Yeah, but there's more of a chance of an upset
there than anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Sure, But again the extension of that is we're not
actually talking about si U E or whatever letters were
just mentioned there in football, We're talking about Boise State
or someone like that.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
We well, remember Liberty was twelve and one and they
were like or twelve and one. They were like yeah, no, wow, Yeah,
I mean it was like not today.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
I mean Liberty for you. I don't even know sort
of the structure of all of it because it changes
every year. Like when I was a broadcaster in nineteen
ninety eight for my alma mater, cal Poly, we went
to play Liberty. We weren't even that's it wasn't even
Division one.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
That was Division one Double A at the time.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, So it's like that's a completely different level unless
something has changed, and I'm sure it has because it
does every year.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
I just think, you know, people are more apt to
watch the you know, sixty fourteen.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
It's not enough. I guess, big names.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
I guess if you win your conference, you deserve a shot, right,
you deserve a shot. That makes sense for basketball, right.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
And I mean by the way structure the conferences, if
you're so worried about it, structure the conferences in a
way where quite frankly, the big boys are the ones
who are going to win the conferences. I don't know
why everybody's still holding on, oh, Big Ten, Big East,
Big SEC whatever, Like who cares, It's all been blown

(32:04):
to smithereens already anyway.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
Yeah, but I get that, I understand that. But it's
it's really about you know, you know basketball. You can
have a player on your basketball Wally Zerbiak for Miami, Ohio. Yeah, yeah, right,

(32:31):
his team was scoring sixty in the tournament.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
He had fifty six of them.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Right.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
There is no way to do that in football. That's
the difference, right, Like Lee High when.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
C. J.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
McCullum was there, There is no way to do that
in football. Jim or verdett at BYU.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Remember that, sure, Steph Curry.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Steph Curry, Sure, basketball lends to that football. You got
the best quarterback on the planet.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Earth and that won't work. It's not gonna work right.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
But again, again, I'm not talking about tiny you. I'm
just talking about someone who's like not Alabama, not Clemson,
not Michigan, not Ohio State. There has to be a
way to structure that where it doesn't and by the way,
they already have. I'm just saying like, it shouldn't bother
everybody so much.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
I get.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, it doesn't bother me.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
I think if you win UH and you're undefeated all
of those things, you have the right to represent UH
in the tournament. I think the twelve teams gives us
a little preview of that. Even with the big names,
the playoffs still will blowouts. So it's like, ugh, true
on any given time, it's only about three great teams

(33:57):
in college football when you when it's all said and done,
it's on about three really great teams.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
We're live in the Tirek dot com studios. That's he
from Salama, Mark Willard. We got a little sidetracked on
the DK Metcalf thing in terms of where he sits
on the list and didn't get the answer of whether
or not the wide receiver contract bubble has burst or
not we'll get back to that coming up on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
All right, these Arethetirack dot Com studios. Glad you're with us.
That's he from Salama Mark Willard. So it is kind
of fascinating what the Steelers just did with the acquisition
of DK Metcalf and a thirty million dollars a year
contract over five years. Fascinating for this reason, Like, do
you think that the wide receiver contract bubble has burst?

(34:51):
Because I still lean in the direction of yes, number
one and number two.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
But if there's.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Any team out there, any team in the NFL where
I would not recommend going thirty million a year for
a receiver, I think that would be the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
I would agree with that.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Like, so, what are we doing? You just said it.
We don't even know who the quarterback is. The head
coach has always based everything he's ever done on the
run game, even when he did have dynamic performers at
quarterback in the receiver position, DK said he wanted to
go to warm weather. You don't have it, Like, what

(35:35):
on earth is DK Metcalf going to do in Pittsburgh
to be worth thirty million dollars.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Obviously, they wanted to bolster their weapons outside with the
with their embattled receiver that they they they have not
quite sure what the actual plan is for who's going

(36:07):
to spread the love In terms of the ball around, it's.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
It was, Look, I'm.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Happy DK got paid, but I don't know why if
that makes sense by them, not by you know, any
other team, just by them, because to me, it's like
there was getting the quarterback situated I think would be

(36:42):
of highest priority.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
In my opinion.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
And so now it's, yeah, you got a great receiving corps.
Who's throwing them the ball? Are they on the market?
Are they going to get Sam Donald? Are they bringing
in Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Who else?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Kin? I mean, could you get involved there?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I like there was a report today that that Pittsburgh
started knocking on on Sam Donald's door, which is I mean, maybe,
but it's probably more likely that that comes from Sam
Donald's agency in an effort to get seattle up, bump
that up a little bit. If I'm Sam Donald, I'm

(37:34):
a West Coast guy, and and and you know, I've
kind of been through everything that I've been through in
New York, cold weather AFC city whatnot? Like you saw
what he did in a weather controlled environment this year?
Like I'm going to Seattle. I'm not, even though you

(37:55):
just came up DK. I'm a government yes, yeah, but
Lockett lock is getting a little up there. But I
really like Jackson Smith and Jig But I like him too, right,
I really I really like the the running backs they have. Yeah,
if I'm Sam Donald, I'm I'm I'm I'm not gonna

(38:16):
go battle Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
How about that, I'm not gonna do that.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (38:22):
That that that makes sense? That Uh, that would be
a smart move, right, wouldn't you go to Seattle?

Speaker 4 (38:29):
I would go to Seattle yet?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Or is there is there door number three? You go
back to New York and play for the Giants.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
No, okay, no, no, I think that New York experiment
we're past that. I don't I don't think he should
go back. You don't want to just start retracing your stay,
even though it's a different franchise. The New York media
is the New York media, so they cover the Giants too,

(39:00):
And you don't want to go to a poorly run franchise.
The Giants are poorly run.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
I mean, I think that's what I just said about
Miles Garrett at the top of the show.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Yeah, but he's been there though, Like you don't opt into,
you don't go. You don't leave a great run program
and go to a poorly one pro and when there
are other options on the table, that's what you don't do. Now,
if you're drafted there and you've you've grown there, and
you've played there your whole career, that's a different conversation

(39:35):
because now you got to remember these trades and all
of that. Guys are being families are moved, the kids.
It's a lot yep, I hear that. It's a lot
that goes that goes actually into that. So you know,
it never surprises me when a guy stays, especially when

(39:56):
they back the truck up.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Let's get into something hoops coming up next. Lebron James
got hurt last night. Let's talk about it and we
will next. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio, Yeah,
let's talk Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
There's a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
There's the injury that's the physical, and then there's the
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(40:37):
of returns that we've got on the Lebron James Growin
injury says a week to two. I'm gonna guess, just
based on a couple conversations I've had, that it's at
least two. They're gonna slow play this. The Lakers have
done a good enough job in recent weeks of playing
themselves into a protected playoff position. One thing that did

(41:00):
pop to mind, though, and I wonder how you think
it affects this if the Lakers now with no center
and no Lebron, if they're weakened a little bit to
where you see maybe not a losing streak.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
But less effective play for a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
They do play Denver twice in this two week period,
and if Denver is to take advantage of that sort
of solidify the two seed, push the Lakers to the
three my mind starts going to whether or not you've
got a first round matchup of Lakers and Warriors. Sure,
there's a lot of different things that could go on here.
Maybe it won't play out that way, but at this point,

(41:42):
based on what's happened since the deadline, I kind of
find that to be a nightmare scenario for the NBA.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
If those two teams.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Play in Round one, they would hate that.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, yeah, don't don't burn that right away, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I don't know what's your reaction to the injury and
what this means for the Lakers round now.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
First of all, I just want to get more information
to see if it's how serious it is. It's not
a bad thing that Lebron gets to have a little
time off.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
It's a good point.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
It's not a bad thing coming down to stretch into
the playoffs. I think.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
It's one of those things where he wasn't going to
rest at all, and so I think this. I hope
it's a mild, growing injury, a couple of weeks rest,
be ready, recharge, finish the seat, and strong going to

(42:41):
the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
That's that's my hope.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
I don't want it to be what was it twenty
seventeen or what year did he have it where it's
seventeen missed, you know, seventeen games or something like that.
Not that don't want that to happen. No, he seemed
like he was all right, you know, but I think

(43:05):
the Lakers can hold for you know, second are second
or third seed is fine, it's not the play in
and I think that's important.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Do you see the idea of that potential matchup? A Sure,
it's bad for the league because you want to keep
those two players in this whole thing as long as possible,
number one, but number two. I think that it could
be argued with both of these teams the way they're

(43:39):
playing since the trade deadline, with the acquisitions of Luca
and Jimmy Butler, I sort of feel like both of
them are out of place in terms of their seeding.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Like you don't you don't want to face those teams?
Oh no, no, no, you those like that is.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
An inflated version of what a sixth seed usually would be.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
And if the Lakers fall a little bit because of this.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Injury, same thing there, yeah, and you know what I mean,
So like do you do you almost see like the
Warriors as the threat that you wouldn't want to see
if you're the Lakers.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
No you no, No, no, I don't. I don't think
the Warriors, you know, I don't think that's the case.
I don't think the Lakers are worried about the Warriors.
They match up well against the Warriors used to. No,
they still do. They still do.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Haven't really seen him play.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
I know, but they they they they still do. The
Warriors don't have any size, so that's what I mean. Hello, Well, no,
but that.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Used to be the edge that they had, like Anthony
Davis used to run that match up.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yeah, I know, I get it.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
But they do have wing defenders and and I think
they have more firepower, more punch, and then they do
have a especially when Rory comes back, they do have
an inside presence with Lebron in the mid poles, Rory
in the high post, they can do some damage in

(45:10):
the post. But that matchup favors, you know, the Lakes,
even with Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Okay, in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, done, that's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
But at the same time, you know, like if you
look at look at the landscape of that Western Conference
right now, and again we've talked about it some already,
like the before, since the trade deadline developments in the
Western Conference, and now you can add in the Jaron
Jackson injury in Memphis, Like I kind of want to

(45:45):
play any of those teams except for what we're talking
about here. Look, Denver is Denver. There's no there's no
there's no push over there in Oklahoma City should end
up running the show. But put it this way, I
would be more scared of Golden State of Minnesota than
I would be of Memphis and Houston, a very very

(46:07):
young team.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
I agree with that those have better records right now.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
And so I don't know, I don't know if you
want to kind of mess around with the with the
standings a little bit, but you know, that's that's no
matter who I am.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
That's what i'd like to see. I'd like to see
Memphis or Houston in round one.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Yeah, I think that'd be a good compelling matchup for
a Golden State.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Uh, that'd be.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
Great job against Steph. Oh sure, Jalen Green against Steph.
That's what you want, that's what you need. What is
Golden State?

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Right now? We're six?

Speaker 3 (46:48):
There are six, they're the six.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Minnesota is only a half game behind them, They're only
and then they're three behind Houston. But those playing teams
right now, I mean, Minnesota is starting to finally play there,
getting healthy. They've won four in a row. And I
remember talking to you about this last week. Of all
teams in the NBA, the number one team of like,
why aren't they better to me?

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Is the Timberwolves.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
I agree, yes, they like that, that's the number one
they should be better team to Evincenzo's back. Go Bears
is back. They've won four in a row. I expect
them to keep on coming. The Clippers I'll never figure
out for the rest of my life. Doesn't matter who
plays for them. Nope, it just gets weird.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Cursed man, Right, it's a real thing.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
You get to March and things just get weird. And
so here we are again. And I was almost expected
this time around Sacramento. I'm almost surprised at the way
they're playing. But what's their firepower with Sabonis hurt and
Darren Fox plays for San Antonio and Dallas right now
has a game and a half lead on the Suns,
and I don't know if the Mavericks are ever going

(47:53):
to win a basketball game again.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Yeah, I think it's done with the Mavericks.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
I think they should shut AD down for the rest
of the season and try to get a you know,
as close to a lottery pick as they could possibly
do it.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
It's funny with people like they should shut AD down
for the season.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
He is already like what is.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (48:16):
He's not knocking on the door trying to get in
the game, right, I don't know, man, Man, you know what,
quick aside, what do you think is happening on the
inside with the Mavericks because this doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Man.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
I think they're trying to I think they're trying to
position themselves to move the team.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
So you're like, you're you're buying that cons.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Alienating the fan base. Yes, you know they're raising season tickets, right, raising.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Season tickets eight?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yes, Like you cannot control Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving
getting hurt.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
That I understand, but trading Luca and.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Then having literally as death threats are coming in, then
you walk to the podium to be like okay, okay,
we hear you.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
We know you're mad. Oh, by the way, ticket prices
are going up.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
That's when I started MyBO That's when my antenna went up.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I went, wait a minute, I've watched this.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
I watched this the last couple of years here in
the Bay Area with the Oakland A's, and I watched
this about five to seven years ago with the San
Diego Chargers. You watch ownership groups purposefully tick.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Off their fans and it's like, what's going on there?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Well, this is what's going on yep.

Speaker 5 (49:42):
And at first it was like, oh, well, you know
it's a conspiracy. And now all the pieces are lining up.
Now it's it's a situation where you're like, who wait,
this seems like it's tracking. They wanted to do a
casino on Dallas. They were like absolutely not. Okay, okay,

(50:05):
we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna give you more money
back for seeing your season tickets, and we're gonna raise
the price next year.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
We're giving your money back so that you can spend more.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
And they said, we're raising the price because a fan experience.
We're we're gonna put that money into fan experience.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Oh oh oh are you now? It's pretty funny, but
it's not funny. It's not funny. It's only funny because
like I'm not a Mavericks fan. Yeah, it's not funny.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
You gotta laugh, uh to not cry?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Right, Oh, it's infuriating if that's if that's your team,
you know, it's it's it's as.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
I would be losing my mind right now.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
There they are, and they are they are Mavericks fans are.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Yeah, that's tough for them.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Man, how would you feel if you're Klay Thompson.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Oh, he's like, what, I should have gone to the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Or anywhere or anywhere. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I don't expect our nationwide audience to really understand the
story of where that was. But the bottom line in
one minute, the story is Klay Thompson is frustrated for
a better part of a year and a half because
he's trying.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
To overcome major, major injuries.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
And he's getting back to the court and he's trying
to sort of be the player he used to be
as opposed to working directly with father time. That leads
to frustration. He doesn't handle that frustration well. He kind
of becomes a gunner, starts shooting too much, he starts
putting up bad numbers. He starts being a little bit
of a locker room problem, and feelings start getting hurt

(51:50):
between him and the Warriors. But he's a legend, a
franchise legend, so he's about to be a free agent.
The year before the year starts, the Warriors offer him
two years and forty eight million dollars.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
He feels offended by that.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
Man, he's just taking it, uh huh.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
So then he runs through the end of the year
and basically is like, I'll sign anywhere but the Warriors.
So instead of that twenty four per year for two years,
he signs seventeen per year for three years, and is
wooed by the idea of I got a shot to
win if I play with Luca and Kyrie. And now

(52:30):
he's like, at thirteen points a game, he's their best player.
His dad said that he's in purgatory. He said that
on the air this week. And oh, by the way,
the team he left acquired Jimmy Butler can't seem to
lose a game and nobody's even uttering his name anymore in.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
The bank, and the team that really wanted him is.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
The two seed.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Damn, you want to talk about playing the wrong card?

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Goodness, great. That's oh dog.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
I feel bad for him.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
That's tough. I feel bad for him and he has
to just sit in that like it's just which is
literally what he did. I don't know if you saw
did you see the viral highlight today? Yes, that guy,
that guy lined up against uh, what's his name, Plumbley.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
He lined up against Plumbly in the suns. He's out
on the wing.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
He got the ball with thirteen seconds on the shot
clock and basically pump fake for thirteen seconds and then
the ball just got handed to the ref.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
I'm like, what is happening? Is? What is? What? Are
the Mavericks.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
Dysfunctional?

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Boy boy?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Okay, while we're on this NBA front, we haven't gotten
to the other part of Lebron, which I am really
looking for to talking to you, really looking forward to
talking to you about. Speaking of viral video, Lebron and
steven A and the whole situation, let's get to that

(54:13):
coming up next.

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do I want to know what you think about this?
I mean, you're a hoopsnake, you're a Laker fan, and
your dad and those three things all have entry points
to this.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Lebron James Stephen A. Smith thing for me just real quick.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
I'll say this because you and I have this conversation
I think it was a week ago or two weeks
ago with regard to Anthony Edward's statement that he didn't
want to be the face of league, and Lebron came
out and was like, I get it. I get why
he doesn't want to be the face of the league
because all all y'all do.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Is just talk mess all the time.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
That's it, and then went on to have the nerrative
to say, I didn't ask for this.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
I didn't ask for this attention.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Yes, I've made billions of dollars off of it and
called myself the chosen one, But I didn't ask for this. Okay, Lebron,
yes you did. But here's what's funny. You going over
to Stephen A. Smith and telling him to leave your
son out of it. Now, you really asked for that. This,

(56:41):
This to.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Me is even worse.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Ephraim, how dare how dare Lebron James force one of
the proudest organizations in sports to draft his son, play
his son, pull his son to start him though he
is not qualified to do so. Then have the nerve

(57:06):
to tell people to not talk about him. Holy crap.
The only reason anybody cares is because you made it
so that one. This one, for me is just beyond wild.
How dare Lebron act like his son is a kid
at a park and someone's taking pictures of him. This

(57:29):
isn't inappropriate. You made him a Laker. You made him
a laker.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Couldn't believe that one man?

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Yeah, so about that?

Speaker 3 (57:44):
About that?

Speaker 2 (57:45):
I am boy, dude, I got my popcorn ready for
your answer.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
I thought it was a terrible look.

Speaker 5 (57:57):
It's not like Bronnie James is in college, are working
at a law firm, and Steven a is speaking about
him personally. He is a professional athlete, which you made happen, Lebron,

(58:19):
And just like all professional athletes, you get scrutinized and
talked about based on your ability or inability to play
the actual sport that you're being paid for. So for Bronnie,

(58:42):
it's his inability. Now, it's not a personal attack. It's
not I don't think you're the greatest player ever. I'm
a Jordan guy, so I'm going to tarnish and attack
your son. It's he seems like he's over his head. Whatever, Steve,
and they said, I don't think he's misspoke. I don't

(59:04):
think he was overly harsh. I think he was doing
his job. Now, there have been other athletes who, you know,
haven't agreed with someone stephen A takes and they've approached
him and all of that. Bronnie is a man, he's
a grown man. If he has a problem, stephen A,

(59:26):
he was at the game, he could have come over
and said something. It would have actually been better if
he would have done it.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Definitely.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
It would have been like, oh, snap, okay, I see you, Bronnie.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
But then I would have been like, yo, you gotta
realize that's just part of it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
It's not a personal attack. It's just part of it.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
But when your dad, dad goes, your dad dad goes
to protect you, you can't do that. That's a terrible look.
That is a terrible look. You brought this on yourselves,
on on on your son. The Lakers drafted them for you.

(01:00:07):
We all know that. And I'm okay with that. I
really am. You said at the time, I am okay
with I remember the debate, yep, I'm okay yep.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
And so what has to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Is you wanted it, it happened, So now you have
to deal with what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
What comes with that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
As someone who's been in the league twenty two years,
you know what comes with that, the good and the bad.
Sports pundits and analysts and TV host sports show hosts
have the right to speak about what you put on
the court or what you put on tape, court, field, pitch, whatever.

(01:00:54):
That's their job. And so I didn't agree with Lebron James.
I thought it was a poor taste a father protecting
his son. It's more than that. Your son is a
professional athlete. He has to be able to fight his
own battles and he doesn't need you. You can't use
your cash, your cachet to save him. You being Lebron James,

(01:01:19):
one of the top three best players ever, is not
gonna save your son from scrutiny from his lack of
abilities as of now as an NBA player, I ain't
got nothing to do with you. So that's that's my feeling.
That's like if I would have just all of a

(01:01:39):
sudden just walk up to Steve Sager and be like, hey,
I don't want you to do it out I don't
want you to do too thirty after, I don't want
you to do to do to update.

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
It would be like that if you waited till you
had a national television get made sure all the cameras
were on. You don't meet him in the hallway or
maybe the privacy of a locker room, or or god forbid,
speak to him in private, like on your own phone
or somebody's house or a restaurant away for it. Hey, no, no,
make sure to do it. Then have I made my point?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
I think you made you point.

Speaker 7 (01:02:12):
Yes, Let's get to the NBA, shall we? And then
we have believed me a lot of NFL news. The
Grizzlies are leading with seven seconds left at New Orleans
one oh seven, one oh four. Desmond Bane thirty points.
Not playing for the Pelicans tonight out due to rest,
Zion Williamson. Philadelphia leads with seven minutes left against Utah

(01:02:33):
one ten ninety four. If the Jazz fall, that'll be
five straight losses and a record of fifteen and forty nine.
Minnesota at home is leading mid third quarter against the
Spurs eighty eight seventy nine, and it's early third quarter
at Milwaukee. Cleveland has won thirteen in a row and
is winning against the Bucks sixty six to fifty eight.
Phoenix won at Dallas today and Oklahoma City won at

(01:02:57):
seventh in a row. Shay gilgis Alexander forty points in
a win over Denver one twenty seven to one h three.
College basketball final day of the men's regular season AH rank.
Michigan State finished twenty six and five, first place in
the Big Ten Conference after beating rival Michigan seventy nine
sixty two Conference final wins for High Point, Lipscomb, and

(01:03:18):
Drake they're all going to the National Tournament. And yeah,
we've got a Summit League final going on right now.
Saint Thomas, Minnesota is winning in the first half twenty
three twenty one over top seed Omaha. But no, Saint
Thomas is going nowhere after tonight, they're not eligible for
the NCAA. Guys, the Buffalo Bills agreed to a new

(01:03:38):
contract six years worth with MVP quarterback Josh Allen. Were
two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed. Seattle is trading
wide receiver DK Metcalf to the Steelers, who are giving
him an extension through twenty twenty nine. The Rams agreed
to a two year deal with wide receiver DeVante Adams.
The Browns gave defensive end Miles Gear an extension four

(01:04:01):
years over one hundred and twenty million dollars guaranteed. The
Vikings re signed running back Aaron Jones. Yes, it's free
agency week coming up in the NFL. We'll hear some
negotiations and reports over the next couple of days. Nothing's official,
including the recent trades and signings, until Wednesday. Wednesday is
the first day of the NFL's new league year. It's

(01:04:22):
official that former running back Eddie George is the new
head coach at Bowling Green. He's been coaching at Tennessee State.
Christopher Bell was the NASCAR winner for the third straight
week at Russell Henley took the Arnold Palmer Invitational by
one stroke over Colin Morikawa. Matt's catcher Francisco Alvarez will
miss the next six to eight weeks with a broken hand.

(01:04:43):
There is one report on the elbow of Yankee star
pitcher Garrett Cole that the current recommendation is for him
to have Tommy John surgery, but he's waiting for a
second opinion. A reminder the Cubs and Dodgers opened the
regular season in Tokyo this month. The first game will
be on Fox TV, Game two will be on FS one.
Those contests will start at six am Eastern Time March

(01:05:06):
eighteenth and nineteenth. And let's update the Thompson family, shall we.
You mentioned Klay Thompson for the Mavericks, one of the
few healthy players they have left twenty six points in
their loss in Dallas. Today, his brother, outfielder Trace Thompson,
hit his sixth home run of spring for the Boston
Red Sox. Today Boston beat Atlanta seven to three.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Back to you six home runs in the spring.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
You gotta do what my mom always says whenever her
favorite team scores a lot in the first quarter or
the first inning of a game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Go save something later, got save something? Now? Know me
out there wasting it all when it doesn't count.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Unless he wins a job with this that would help.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, for his particular case, You're right, probably
what works out pretty good, okay, Steve, Thanks as always,
Live ty IRAQ dot Com Studios. Yeah, man, I just like,
I mean, we can, uh, we can move on to
some other stuff. I just I was kind of dumbfounded.
I'm baffled that this has become such a thing. And

(01:06:12):
I like what Steve sort of was insinuating there, which
is that like, if you truly if this problem that
you had, if you're lebron James with the way NBA
media is talking about things and then specifically to your son,
if you really had a genuine problem with it, Yeah,
you wouldn't address it at mid court. That's that's just

(01:06:36):
that's like that, that's grandstanding. You're actually trying to make
a different point.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Yeah, you could have just called him.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Right, don't Actually you don't have his number?

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
Yeah, I just didn't. Well why would you even do that?
Why would you even call him? Like you come home?

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
That's legitimizing the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
You gotta get it together, man. Your son is a
professional athlete. He fall was under the scrutiny and.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Ridicule every other professional athlete and the history of professional
athletes fall under. That's just the bottom line.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Well, and I love your point. The offended party here
should not be stephen A. It should be Bronnie. Yeah,
because the whole thing is legitimizing the point that stephen
A is making, which is that Bronnie can't handle it.
Bronni cannot handle the NBA. He's not qualified and not
good enough to play. So and then you legitimize it

(01:07:32):
further when you got to go fight his fight for
him and get mad at people for saying what's clearly
obvious to everybody. And the only reason you would do
that is if you felt like this was in some
way making it harder for your son, And I would
argue that means that's good because he can't handle it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Dad, Come on, man, right, Dad?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, don't know, Dad, Oh gosh, the whole thing's so battering.
It I what like Lebron James for all the things
people accuse him of of arrogance, narcissism, whatever, Like nothing
is ever to me really landed. I've always been impressed
with the way this guy handles his celebrity. This is well,

(01:08:18):
But for three weeks now, I'm like, where is this
overly sensitive Lebron coming from?

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Where is this? You're Lebron brush your shoulder off.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
And Bronni hasn't played in forever, so like what I mean,
you've been holding on it is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
Right? Like it's just odd man, you've.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Been really waiting to get this off your chest. What's
that time Brown was in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't
look for it anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Yeah, how long you've been holding on it is?

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
I mean, it's a fair question here, Like, I'll try
to look it up. I'll try to look it up.
When's the last time Bronnie James played in a game?
He's played in eighteen games this year. Oh, we got
four minutes on Tuesday? Okay, square a bucket? Yeah, perfect,

(01:09:24):
squired a bucket, miss, both of his threes, got a
rebound and a turnover.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
And those are those are his only four minutes since
February twelfth.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Yeah, man, let that go. Man let him go. Let's
just just let him do his thing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Well, in a way, I sort of feel like there's
an overlap between this and the little Charles Barkley Kendrick
Perkins spat.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
I wonder if you do too. It's kind of like
when I hear Charles Barkley say what he said, and
for those of you who didn't hear it, his essentially
his point was, well, talking head to ESPN, led by
that idiot Kendrick Perkins. All they do is talk about
the Lakers and the Warriors. All they do is talk
about Lebron.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
And staff because he said that the Lakers, uh, that
saved the NBA this season. Correct, Kendrick Perkins.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
And Charles' point is the real stories are Oklahoma City
and Cleveland. No one cares. And I'm like, no, that, Like,
you don't earn no one cares. You don't earn storyhood
by winning. You earn storyhood by the public caring about you.
The public decides who the story is, not the broadcasters.

(01:10:45):
So Charles can talk about whatever he wants because he's
Charles and he's just entertaining on his own. But the
rest of the world, I don't want to hear about
Darius Garland and and and so therefore.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
What do we hear about. We hear about Bronnie James
and Lebron knows that he knows.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
That's why he's a story. So I don't know. Man,
hold the whole thing pretty that's pretty head scratching to me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Yeah scratching.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Right now, we're in the tyrech dot Com studios. We'll
circle back to the NFL coming up next. Big moves
by wide receivers, but let's switch it over to the
other side.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Of the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Is it novelty or is it a perfect match made
in Heaven? Tell you what we're talking about in a
moment with Ibram Salam, Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio, Okay,
Tyrich dot Com Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Josh Allen got a new deal.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
We should talk about that and the trick will down
effect because some think he got less than Dak Prescott,
others think he got more. We'll explain and do that
at the top of the hour. How do you feel
about not one Bosa but two on a defensive line?

(01:12:15):
How does that grab you? I mean, I'm interested in
what that means. One is really good, Yeah, okay, you're
talking about Nicky.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
The other one is just his brother. Wow, can't stay healthy,
So what's the point. That's the bottom line.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
I mean, he can't say healthy, right, It's it's one
of those situations where it'd be cool to have both
of the brothers out there, and he probably unlock a
little bit of something in him to play with his
little brother, you know, so put a little edge to

(01:13:02):
a little competition there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
So I think that's the best way to get more
productivity out of him, either there or go somewhere else
where there's a dynamic edge rusher. Go to Cleveland, the
opposite of Miles Garrett. You're gonna get all the one
on ones you want.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
You're not calling it Cleveland, man, You're not going to Cleveland.
The only other rumor out there is Miami, and that
just showed up. But I mean, as of last night,
I can tell you the people who I talked to
are around these parts thought that the Niners and Joey

(01:13:41):
Bosa are moving moving down the road to a deal
pretty fast.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
Well, okay, that's always great to play with your brother.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Yeah, but that's been my question all along.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Like the rumor comes up, and you know, as soon
as Joey got released, their mom is on Instagram doing
let's do it addition of Joey to the Bay And
I'm thinking, are you like thinking that this would be
great for the Niners or do you just want to
save on your travel budget? You know, like I'm I'm

(01:14:11):
looking at this and and what you just said spoke
volumes to me. Is Joey Bosa still that top five
pick in the draft or is this just a novelty
because everyone's.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Like, oh, this would be cool.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Why would would it be cool because they would be
a dominant force on two sides of a defensive line,
or because they have the same name on the back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Of their jersey name. Yeah, then I'm out. I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I mean, that's that's that that team needs to rework
their entire defensive line. It's the heartbeat of it's the
way that that team has been built. It's the way
that that regime builds their entire football team from the
defensive line out. And when they were great, that's that's

(01:15:04):
where they've gotten tons of production.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
And last year it was very mediocre.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Allows opposing teams to focus squarely on Nick and nothing
else and they couldn't get anything done. And they've released
two more people off that defensive line, like barely before
this conversation got started, Like they are starting from scratch,
Nick Bosa and scratch, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
And so I think you need you need something.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Dynamic on the other end, not someone who will play
eight games.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
That's that's as accurate as you Will said. Will said,
We're not going for you know, feel good stories. We
need some actual help. And like I said, look, maybe
that's just what he needs to really restart his trajectory.

(01:16:09):
Because he came into the league, you know, causing a ruckus.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
This good player, yeah, good player.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
Right yep, and then injuries and then coming back from
injuries nothing and it just you know, so maybe he
needs a little bit of his brother's mojo to to
really get it going and jump into it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Trying to look at this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
So rookie year was twenty sixteen contract holdout, but started
eleven games and was defensive Rookie of the Year. Year
two sixteen games, and this is back when sixteen games
was actually a full season year three seven games. Then

(01:16:58):
he got another sixteen in there, then he had a twelve,
then he had another sixteen in there, and by then
it's twenty twenty one and he's a four time pro
bowler and he's defensive Rookie of the Year. Now, let's
look at the last three seasons. The last three seasons,
and this is when it was a seventeen game schedule,

(01:17:18):
Joey Bosa has played appeared.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
In twenty eight games.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
He has started eighteen games seventeen times three is fifty one.
That's how many possible games, fifty one and he's played
in twenty eight of them and started.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Eighteen of them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Yeah, that's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Although he got a Pro Bowl now last year.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
That's not hard to do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Five sacks a Pro Bowl with five sacks he's had
he has had a total of fourteen sacks over the
last three seasons.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
That's not it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I don't know, man, Like we're just getting started, and
tomorrow is that legal tampering period and all of that,
and then free agency for real starts on Wednesday. Like,
I have found a lot of what we've gotten so
far to be kind of head scratching. You know, this,
this this Bosa thing, well, head scratching to me, Miles

(01:18:25):
Garrett to wake up and find out that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
He's like, okay, we'll take your money. Like head scratching.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
It is to me like I thought you actually had
I thought this demand had a backbone. No, and then
DK Metcalf to the Steelers. Is I mean George Pickens
and DK Metcalf and no quarterback is objectively hysterical, No quarterback.

(01:18:56):
They're both gonna go nuts, They're gonna go complete.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
I mean, those are big personalities.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
Those are real big personalities.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
So I don't, Yeah, I don't really, I don't understand
what we've gotten so far.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Any any moves that you've seen that you like.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
I like the the Davante Adams to the Rams.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Okay, I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (01:19:25):
Great move. Thought that was a great move. I like
them taking care of Josh Allen. Now, I thought that
was a great move coming off m MVP season. Those
two are you know?

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Great? I hate that they franchise tag Tray Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Yeah, yeah, t Higgins too. All right, let's get into
that Josh Allen situation coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
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Steelers set to surprise with offer to quarterback Sam Donald. Well,

(01:20:23):
he's not a surprise anymore. Y'all went and ruined it,
so it's not a surprise. And if I'm Sam Donald,
I'm not even thinking about that place at all. I'm
gonna go to a cold weather division with two superstar
quarterbacks and two hmm, big personality wide receivers who both

(01:20:49):
really really want the ball. I think probably not. But
let's talk about a different quarterback. Let's talk about one
of the quarterbacks who made a lot of news today,
and that is Josh Allen with a new six year
contract extension worth thirty three hundred and thirty million dollars.

(01:21:12):
I got to figure out, and I'll just ask you
this right here on the air. I got to figure
out how as radio hosts we can talk about quarterback
contracts so that our listeners understand what we're talking about
without us having to go so deep into the weeds,
because everybody gets stuck on average per year, and Josh

(01:21:36):
Allen got fifty five million per year, And I think
a very very smart fan can be like, excuse me,
why is Dak Prescott making sixty per year and Josh
Allen just signed a new deal for fifty five? Like
what's that about. However, if you want to dive into

(01:21:58):
the guarantees of a contract, Josh is now where he
should be number one in the whole NFL. Two hundred
and fifty million of it is guaranteed.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
And I think that's the difference you as fans, you
have to understand it's about the totality of the money
you're bringing home, not your yearly salary. I don't have
it in front of me right now. So I'm eating

(01:22:31):
an apple. I just broke my fast.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
What kind of apple?

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
It's one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
I get very excited by this, Like, what kind of
apples do people like?

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
It's a little red apple. They come in they called
rocket apples.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Oh, I'm familiar with that rocket apples.

Speaker 4 (01:22:47):
Rocket. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
Is that like a kind of apple or a brand?

Speaker 4 (01:22:52):
I think it's the brand. Whatever it is is. They're good.
They're like candy apples, those little mini ones.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Yes, okay, rocket like with an it yep, Okay, I'm
just looking at it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
I still don't know what kind of apple it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:06):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Okay. Oh my goodness, I'm just still doing that. Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
Yeah, we have how long does this go? Thirty days?

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Damn?

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
This has only been eight days, nine days.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
I get it twenty one more days ago, which is yeah,
the next two shows. I'll still be fasting, man, Okay,
but just to get I'll get back on Josh Allen's
and money.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
But this has happened before.

Speaker 5 (01:23:36):
You know, the the fasting calendar runs on the lunar calendar,
so it's eleven. It moves up eleven days a year.
What you don't want is to do it during daylight
savings time. So I got the first seven days. I'm
breaking fast after the first hour of our show, all

(01:23:57):
right around five fifty the you know, now that's six fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
That extra hour is brutal.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
That's a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:24:09):
Oh, it's brutal.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
That's a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
So I was sitting here going, oh, man.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
I'm not gonna lie. I could hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
You sounded like a like a toy battery was running low,
winding down.

Speaker 7 (01:24:24):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Yeah, but look at you now. You knock it out
yet You're back. Do the whole hour?

Speaker 5 (01:24:33):
Power aid zero. Give my electro lights in my rocket, Apple,
got it. I brought a sandwich.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Oh mm hmm. What's on the sandwich.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
It's just a little pastrami.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Oh that's right, pastrama don that's what I called after
last week.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
Yeah, that's because.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
That's yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Oh anyway, Josh Allen and guarantees.

Speaker 5 (01:25:04):
The two hundred and fifty million is the thing that
it doesn't matter the years. It's who's bringing home the
most money, no matter what. And that is the highest
number anyone's ever had. So Dak Prescott can make it,
you know, sixty a year because he has one less year.

(01:25:24):
I believe it's a five year deal, correct, Yeah, so yeah,
it's a six year deal, and which in essence is more.
If he's averaging fifty five a year and it's another year,
I would say it's more.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
It's more.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Yeah, I mean, it's more guarantees than Joe Burrow. It's more.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
It's fifty million more guaranteed than Trevor Lawrence. And when
people say what Jordan Love and Josh Allen make the
exact same amount, it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Is ninety million more guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
Yes, for Josh Allen and for NFL players and for
the structure of this league.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
The guarantee is the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
But we're all sitting here watching this because I think
people see fifty five per year, and I know what
NFL fans do. We immediately start going into our mind
on the comps. Like Gino Smith just got traded to
the Raiders because the Seahawks were not willing to give
him between forty and forty five million or something like that,

(01:26:28):
around forty five million, and the Raiders are expected to say, sure,
let's do that. Now, if you compare that to Josh Allen,
you're like, what are you talking about? You wouldn't sign
for forty Josh, just sign for fifty five. But they're
so different, the length of the contract, the guarantees, And

(01:26:50):
this does affect other quarterbacks who are currently sitting here
looking at the landscape of the whole thing. And the
biggest of this offseason is Rock Party obviously, So how
does this Josh Allen deal, How does it affect what
the Niners in Brock Purty are doing.

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
Man, they should have got that deal done early.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Well, you sound like a damn broken record, because that's
exactly what should They would have had Brandon Aiyuk for
four million less if they had just done it at
the beginning of the summer.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
You got to learn from your mistakes.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
Business wise, they should have gotten Brock Party out the way,
got to a number they both agreed on, didn't let anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
Raise the market.

Speaker 5 (01:27:41):
And you know, I'm sure they didn't even see the
Josh Allen extension coming.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
Well, he had two years left on his deal.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Right, you know what, I'd have to look that up.
I'm not sure. Probably, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
They were like, oh yeah, oh no, So now they're
gonna have to get rock Party around two hundred plus
fully guaranteed.

Speaker 4 (01:28:13):
That's just what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
You know, five year deal for whatever that number is yearly,
but two hundred plus of it is gonna have to
be fully guaranteed.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
So they should have just got that out the way.
Man literally should have just been like, all right, let's
just all right, let's get this out of it. Let's
we got you. It's fifty, let's give him fifty a year.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah, absolutely absolutely. And you know what,
that may be what people head to the internet with.
It may end up being about fifty, But but it's
it's the guarantees that yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
It are going to be going to a five year,
two hundred and fifty million dollar deal with two hundred
of it fully guaranteed, giving you out in the fifth year.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
You know what the problem with that is, though, Like
do you know what you like? What you just said
doesn't even beat Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, but and how and
like Trevor got two hundred guaranteed at fifty five a year.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
Yeah, I think brock Party takes fifty a year, leaving
some for you know, putting those pieces that he needs
around him. Yeah, but you don't start at forty five. No,
that's faulty. That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
I think that report was false.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Okay, I think that like that that report was was
false that the night because I'm with you, and I
had this conversation with with with some friends here here
in the bay this week. It's like, it doesn't matter
for a moment what anybody's Brock Purty.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Opinion is on what you know. TJ.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Huschman Zada was on the herd this week being like,
can't give more than forty seven a year.

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
It's like, okay, I can't even argue with you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
If you want to say, hey, Purty's not elite, he
shouldn't be up there in this conversation with Burrow and Allen,
you can say that, but when you also then look
at the landscape of what other quarterbacks have gotten. I
can tell you if I were Rock Parties agent and

(01:30:19):
I sat down with the Niners for the first conversation
and they said, all right, we're looking at you know,
about one hundred and fifty million guaranteed, and we would
like to do forty five million per year average salary.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
I wouldn't have even spoken. I'd have left. I would
have left, Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
The only thing I would have said is I can't
believe that you guys wasted my time.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
He insulting.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
I came all the way down here for this.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
I canceled plans.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
Yeah, please don't do that again.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Happy to come back when you guys want to have
an actual adult conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
So it's crazy to me, the posturing. You know you're
gonna pay him, so just pay him the money.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
So weird too, because prior to this year, they already
went out in the public and said that, right, they're
like the owner a year ago. It's like, yeah, it's
gonna be top of the market deal. It's just the
way it works. And obviously that's because they were coming
off of a Super Bowl appearance. Then everything goes sideways
and now you're gonna you know, you're gonna try to
send the train back in the other direction.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
It's delayed. Yeah, he's too accomplished.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
One way track.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
Speaking of quarterbacks, a couple others who are potentially out there,
and I want to see what you think with regard
to where they may end up, where they should end
up with he from salam I Mark Wheler. That's coming
up next on Fox Sports Radio. Okay with it from
salam Mark Wheler tyrag dot com studio.

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Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Kirk Cousins would like to leave.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
He'd like to go somewhere where he's got a chance
to start. If you're the Falcons, how would you handle
that request?

Speaker 4 (01:32:45):
Let him go, let him go. I would.

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
You know, trade him to somewhere he he wants to
go and try to get something for Obviously you're going
with Michael Pennix moving forward, So I mean, are we
gonna hold on to him? We're gonna keep him there?

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
I wouldn't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
But you need money, Yeah, but you need a partner,
you know, as you just said, try to get something
for him.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
I mean, I'm still so.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
Blown away by the amount of money that the Atlanta
Falcons are gonna end up having paid for what thirteen
fourteen games of Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Yeah, about what one hundred dollars?

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Good lord, good lord. Yeah. I don't know what he's
gout left.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
I don't know what the right situation is for him.
Send him back to Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
I don't think that happens.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Why not? It seems to me to be the perfect situation.

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
No, no, no, If you're just thinking football wise, yeah,
but optically and personally, it's not. You don't a place
where you're starting, You go back and now you're a backup,
you know, behind a kid who hasn't even played yet.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Well, but I don't know that you would be. That's
kind of the point. I mean, yeah, you are, you are.
You're dealing with someone who's never played before, and you're
and and and is coming off of a major injury.
So like, I don't know, JJ McCarthy just gonna automatically
get the job week one.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
I think them moving Sam Donald. Yes, well, I don't
think they're going to bring someone in to kind of
redo what they you know, probably would have done this year.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Man, that that's a that's a pretty wild scenario, to
be honest with you. That's a pretty wild scenario to
me to uh, to see what the Vikings achieved this year,
to win that many football games and and then respond
to that by handing everything over to a rookie coming

(01:35:27):
off of a major injury.

Speaker 5 (01:35:31):
Yeah, I get it, But I don't know if there's
a place for the former star quarterback to come back
after you use the draft capital on JJ McCarthy. That
is a sticky situation. Yep, that is a situation that

(01:35:56):
I don't think JJ McCarthy benefits from because what you
don't want to do is you don't want to stifle
his growth in terms of if you think he can
be a franchise quarterback. When you add these different elements
into what's going on, That's what it feels like. All Right,

(01:36:19):
you had to watch Sam Darnell. Granted you hurt yourself.
Sam had a fantastic year, fell off towards the end
last two games. He's moved on. Oh, you brought the
guy back that Sam and I both replaced. So in
terms of his growth and development, where does that leave him?

(01:36:41):
And now you can waste another year? Right and then
you could you know, say Kirk Cousins comes in and
he picks up where he left off before he got
hurt and takes him to the NFC Championship game, and
here do you then what do you do? You send
them pack in for JJ McCarthy the third year or

(01:37:03):
do you ride the hot hand? Now you're three four
years into a five year There's so many things that
can go wrong for you not to be able to
maximize the draft capital. You spit on JJ McCarthy, I
did it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
I say?

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
I get it at the same time, and I guess, look,
until Sam is not still a member of the Vikings,
I guess we shouldn't act like he's not and that
he's gone.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
But you know, if we're to believe the way that
this is.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
All trending right now, and I get it, the Vikings
they used a very very hefty pick on a quarterback
and so that that is going to be the future
quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
But nobody could have seen coming that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
What was going to happen last year happened, And I
find it hard to believe that the Vikings are are
having an easy time just turning the page from that, Like, Okay,
we went fourteen and three, but never mind, never mind,
We're just gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
We go back to the starting blox.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
With the highest paid wide receiver in the sport, and
we're just gonna hand all of this that is now
established and in place and ready to go. You're bringing
your receivers back, you re sign your running back today.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
You have a.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Plus defense, you have an amazing defensive coordinator, you have
an amazing head coach slash offensive coordinator. You've got all
of this stuff going, and you're just gonna You're just
gonna be like.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
No, I'm pretty sure we got to pick right. Well,
tough man. They know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:50):
You know more about what that is than we do.

Speaker 3 (01:38:52):
Do they.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Yeah, I mean, let's not act like politics. Don't drive
the bus on time.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:58):
But they understand him in terms of mechanics, his grasp
of the offense, all of it. They've seen him in
a way we haven't because he we didn't get a
chance to really get.

Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
A good look at him.

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
Right, Like remember when Patrick I'm not comparing him to
remember that when the Kansas City was just burning down
the house and Patrick, everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
Was like Patrick Omeo was pretty good at birthdays.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
We were all like Alex Smith was doing it and
they were killing and everybody was going.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
Yeah, but that was an active, healthy quarterback all year. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
But what I'm saying is they were like, man, they
better not lose one game. I think they were like
fifteen and one at one point or something like that,
and they were like, man, if they lose Patrick Mahomes
going in, it's just never lost.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
They never lost, right, And then they got to the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
Right, but he got lost.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
He got that final regular season game, and you know,
of course he's turned into what they thought he was
and what they saw in him. Same with Russell Wilson
in Seattle with Matt Flynn as the starting quarterback the
High probably with a ten million dollar quarterback or whatever,

(01:40:09):
and they were just like.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
No, we're gonna go with the fourth round draft pick.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
So if they're willing to move off Sam, is what
I'm saying, then they must like what they have in McCarthy. Now,
he had a surgery, but he's been working out. He
hasn't just been on the shelf rehabbing. The injury he
had was fixed, and he had because there was there
was a window where they could have brought him back,

(01:40:38):
but they decided to take the whole year. So he's
been there, he's been putting in the work, he's been
in the classroom. So they obviously know something or like
something about JJ McCarthy that I think if you bring
in Kirk Cousins, it takes away from that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
Understood.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
I get, yeah, I get the situation. It just it
feels like it feels like a whole lot to hand
over to somebody who I don't care what they've seen
in practice. It feels like a lot to hand over
to somebody who hasn't proven it.

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
Okay, well, how about we hand over to somebody who
has proven it and does that when the lights come
on and not just practice. How about we hand it
over to Steven, handover to Sega.

Speaker 7 (01:41:31):
Good evening, gentlemen, And you got to hand it to
the Cleveland Cavaliers. They've just won again. That is fourteen
victories in a row. They won at Milwaukee tonight won
twelve one hundred despite thirty points from Janisan Tenecumpo. I
should say a mer won twelve scored by the Caves.
They were averaging one hundred and twenty six points a
game during this long winning streak. The overall record for

(01:41:51):
the Caves now fifty four and ten. Oklahoma City fifty
three and eleven. Seventh straight win for OKC after beating
Denver with a strong fourth quarter today one twenty seven
to one oh three. Shaike iiljis Alexander forty points. Okay
See led by one early in the fourth quarter victories
for Philadelphia and Memphis. Wins for Phoenix and Minnesota, which

(01:42:12):
has won five straight after beating San Antonio tonight one
forty one to one twenty four. The Clippers are home
to Sacramento this evening, but Clippers head coach to Ron
lewis out with a bad back. Clippers lead late first
half forty nine forty seven over the Kings and early
third quarter at Portland Pistons in the lead sixty eight
fifty eight over the Blazers. Luka Doncic of the Lakers

(01:42:33):
listed as questionable for Monday with a sore back. Jason
Tatum of the Celtics questionable with a bad knee in
college hoops. It was the final day of the men's
regular season. Eighth rank Michigan State beat its rival seventeenth
rank Michigan seventy nine sixty two, So Michigan State finished
first in the Big Ten Conference by three games over
Michigan and Maryland. We mentioned earlier in the show, the

(01:42:55):
final of the Summit League Tournament is going on tonight,
Omaha versus Saint Thomas, Minnesota. Normally it would be winn
it goes to the NCAA Tournament. Saint Thomas is not
eligible for the NCAA Tournament yet, they are transitioning directly
from Division three to Division one. They are losing by
eight tonight, Omaha fifty three forty five in the lead

(01:43:16):
with about eleven minutes to go. The Big South winner
was High Point Lipscomb at home when the Atlantic Sun
Drake took the Missouri Valley NC State fired coach Kevin Keats.
In women's hoops Conference tournament finals, SEC winner South Carolina
again beating number one Texas. Today, Big Ten UCLA finally
beat number two ranked usc ACC went to Duke. Big

(01:43:39):
twelve TCU women ranked eighth. We're conference tournament champions in
the NHL Washington four to two over Seattle, and Pittsburgh
won at Minnesota three to one. Pittsburgh Steelers in the
news tonight, Seattle is trading wide receiver DK Metcalf to
the Steelers for a second rounder, and Pittsburgh is giving
him an extension through twenty twenty nine. The Buffalo Bills

(01:44:00):
agreed to a new six year contract with quarterback Josh Allen,
where two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed. The Rams
agreed to a two year deal with wide receiver DeVante Adams.
The Vikings re signed running back Aaron Jones. The Lions
planned to release pass rushers Zadarius Smith. The Browns gave
defensive end Miles Garrett an extension four years over one

(01:44:21):
hundred and twenty million dollars guaranteed. Christopher Bell as the
NASCAR winner for the third straight week. The reported recommendation
for injured Yankees pitcher Garrett Cole is to have Tommy
John surgery, but he'll wait for a second opinion. Mets
catcher Francisco Alvarez will miss the next six to eight
weeks with a broken hand. Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell lost
today's spring training game against the A's seven to five,

(01:44:44):
giving up four runs in three and two third innings.
He did have five strikeouts. By the way, they faced
the Athletics. That's the only name associated with that team
this season. They're not the Sacramento A's. They're certainly not
the Oakland A's. They're just Athletic.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
YEP.

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
When you see the graphics of a ballgame for them
this year or in the next three years, it's just
at h we're playing against lad today and those LA
Dodgers opened the regular season this month in Tokyo against
the Cubs with one game on Fox TV, one game
on FS one March eighteenth and nineteenth, and finally to
the golf, The Arnold Palmer Invitational was this weekend in Orlando.

(01:45:24):
Russell Henley the winner by one strokeover Colin Morikawa. Jason
Day shot a final round seventy four, following to a
tie for eighth place. By the way, Xander Shawfley barely
made the cut on Friday at four over par. He
still hasn't missed a cut in about two years fifty
eight straight events. Shawfley finished in a tie for fortieth
the PGA Tours in Florida for four straight events, including

(01:45:46):
this week's Arnold Palmer, which is a signature events, so
ladies and gentlemen, that is a big paycheck for mister
Henley four million dollars taking this in Orlando, finishing second,
Marikawa pick up two point two million dollars. Meanwhile, in
Hong Kong, Sergeio Garcia took the live golf tournament by

(01:46:07):
three strokes. Phil Mickelson was four back. Garcia won the
individual event and his squad took the team title, something
that doesn't exist on the PGA two. Of course, these
concurrent add up your team scores as well, so at
age forty five, he took home more money in Hong
Kong this weekend in fewer days than he would have

(01:46:29):
won if he had won the Arnold Palmer at bay Hill.
He gets the four million dollars, the usual first prize
for any live golf tournament, and he also splits with
his teammates the three million dollar top prize. In other words,
he gets one fourth of that nice three days for
Sergio Garcia and Dean Burmeister was the second place golfer

(01:46:53):
gets two and a quarter million. Phil Mickelson got one
and a half meal for the third place finish, tied
for sixth in Hong Kong. That's worth over five hundred
and sixty thousand dollars, and Patrick Red tied for tenth.
He earned almost four hundred thousand dollars for three days
of golf overseas.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
Back to you, my goodness, And you know that's Steve.
That athletics thing that you're talking about. It's sort of
the opposite of when Washington was the Washington football team,
where like at that point it was just like, we're
just Washington, Like, don't call us anything, We're just Washington.
And yeah, the the athletics are the absolute opposite of that.

(01:47:37):
And quite frankly, I don't even know if they're ever
going to end up in Vegas either. They may just
sort of spin in this sort of scenario for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
I'll tell you where this is going.

Speaker 7 (01:47:48):
It's sounding promising. It's hardly official, because you know, we
still got three years at least in Sacramento. But since
they do have a home, ladies and gentlemen, can't we
just say sae. I mean, do you know that they're
gonna have Las Vegas printed on the sleeves of their jerseys?
For the next three years playing true. Yes, as a sponsorship,

(01:48:09):
as in visit Las Vegas, it's gonna say Las Vegas
on the sleeve of the jersey for the I can't
call them Sacramento as for the AA. By the way,
the collectors would know this. The baseball cards from fifty
years ago when Dave Winfield was starting with the Padres,
the Padres were almost gonna move to Washington, DC, which
did not have a ball club at the time. They

(01:48:31):
had to print the baseball cards before the season was starting.
They didn't know if they were gonna stay in town
or go to DC. So if you look at the cards,
it says Washington National League. The word Padres is nowhere
on there. So you have a Winfield card, for example,
he's in a Padres uniform. He's got an SD on

(01:48:52):
the cap. But they didn't know if they were moving.
And it turns out Ray Kroc, the guy who ran
all the McDonald's, bought the Padres kept them in San Diego,
and that's why to this day they are still known
as the San Diego Ponders.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
That's right. If you look back at their sleeves.

Speaker 7 (01:49:09):
The first time that ever made the playoffs, in eighty four. Yeah,
he passed away right before the eighty four season.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Amazing, amazing, And yeah, the difference between some owners and others,
which is why, by the way, there's a weird story
kind of bopping around. Arnie was was texting me about
it a couple of hours ago about how other owners
in baseball are pressuring the sale of the Tampa Bay Rays.

Speaker 7 (01:49:37):
Not liking the owner, Yes, not.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
Liking the owner, and and and so people in the
East Bay here in California are like, I'm sorry, excuse me.
You don't like the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays,
but you're fine with.

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
This schmuck and this.

Speaker 7 (01:49:58):
For twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:49:59):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, there's nothing new.

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
I mean, they have been having a stadium in attendance
problems for twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
For a long time. And by the way, they.

Speaker 7 (01:50:09):
Are not playing at the usual Saint Pete Dome. They
are moving to the Yankee spring training facility to play
their home games this season after the hurricane damage at
Tropicana Field. So the A's games are going to be
in a minor league small ballpark, and the Rays games
will be at a small spring training ballpark all season.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
Get your tickets when those two match up. Pretty exciting stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:50:31):
In other words, perhaps the size of the park kind
of fits the normal attendance.

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
Final me to no doubt, no doubt, and we can
be a packed house.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Yeah, we can have some fun with my partner here
from name one player on either team.

Speaker 4 (01:50:43):
Couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
There you go, There you have it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:46):
Couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
There you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
Charles Barkley thinks we should be talking about him though,
big story, big story, right, Thank you, Steve, appreciate that. Hey,
off the top of the show, we got into Miles Garrett,
and there's a piece of the Miles Garrett story that
I don't feel like we dedicated enough time to And
I really really want.

Speaker 3 (01:51:05):
To ask you about it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
You're more qualified to talk about it than I am,
So we'll do that coming up next with he from Salama,
Mark Willard, This is Fox Sports Radio. All right. We're
in the tirag dot com studios. Mark Wellardy from Salam
so started off the show today talking about Miles Garrett,
and I'll freely admit two things. One, I've never walked

(01:51:32):
in financial shoes like that. In Two, I still can't
understand it. I can't understand it. And here's the part
of the conversation. I don't feel like you and I
got far enough into talk to me, man, what is

(01:51:53):
the difference between forty million and thirty five million? If
I take take away the answer five million, what's what's
the difference If the thirty five million is offering you
what you supposedly want in terms of opportunity to win,

(01:52:14):
in terms of quality organization, Why would a bunch more
money when you're already well taken care of for the
rest of your life and your family's lives.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
Why does it matter so much?

Speaker 5 (01:52:31):
Well, I don't think we could say, you know, with
all certainty how he sees his family being taken care of.
Right in Layman's term, it's like, yeah, man, that's you know,
the thirty five million, forty million, what's the big deal?
But in reality it is a big deal. And look,

(01:52:53):
he didn't want I don't believe he wanted to leave Cleveland.
I believe he loves Cleveland. I believe he is a
staple there. Miles Garrett is the biggest thing in Cleveland, period.
He's the biggest thing in Cleveland. So just imagine his
life off the field, even without the success that they

(01:53:14):
thought they were going to have on the field. Imagine
what his life is there in Cleveland. Sure, right, he
is the lebron of Cleveland right now, more so than
any of the Cavaliers.

Speaker 4 (01:53:30):
Or any of that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:31):
Even though they're winning and they're dominant, he is still
the marquee thing in Cleveland. And so walking away from that,
it's tough. Now you can light a fire under an
organization and kind of snap them into hey, are we

(01:53:52):
doing this or not and them committing to you, and
then I'm interested to see what their next moves will be.
Is actually at the quarterback position, they still owe Deshaun
Watson what one hundred million dollars or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:54:06):
How much is left on that deal? Good lord, whatever
it is they owe them, they owe them all that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
So they've restructured it multiple times, right, But if I'm
to look at what is kind of at its core
still still coming, it's yeah, nor it's north of, well
north of fifty million dollars. I mean his base salary,

(01:54:34):
not this coming season, but the year after that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
His base salary is forty.

Speaker 4 (01:54:38):
Six million dollars, which they have to pay right.

Speaker 5 (01:54:43):
Right, So you know, do they give it one last
goal with them just because they're paying them to give
it a goal, or is it a situation where they're like, look,
you can be here, but we have to, you know,
find your replacement.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
No, I know how hesitant those in the professional sports
community are when it comes to talking about other people's
money getting in their pockets all of that stuff. I
guess at the core of what I'm saying because I
don't really care, to be honest with you, Like I've
wrapped my head around these numbers and they're not wrappable, right,

(01:55:27):
you know, Like these like an NBA player is making
sixty million dollars a year. They're making seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a night when they go play these
basketball games.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
So I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
Mind the numbers. They're just numbers. It's somebody else's life
and their money. But Miles Garrett has made one hundred
and twenty four million dollars in his life just on
the field already before any of this started, and now
is going to have a four year extension at forty
person that's another one hundred and six that million, and

(01:56:02):
that that rolls into Miles being.

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
Thirty three years old. So in theory.

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
That's close to three hundred million dollars and that's just
on the field, and we know it goes a lot
deeper than that. So if all of that is there,
I don't care what your lifestyle is. I don't care
about it. Like money is no object. Forty million a year,

(01:56:32):
thirty seven a year, whatever. There's two things I understand.
I understand that there's ego involved, and I understand that
there's other people involved.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
I know there's an agent. I know that there's the
players union.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
I know everybody wants everybody to get everything that you
possibly can out there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
So I understand all that. I just go back to
his words, that's all.

Speaker 2 (01:56:55):
I go back to his words, and in the end,
stay where you want and get as much as you want.
But what we were told was like, that's not what
this was about. We were told that this was about
leaving an organization so that you were not part of
a rebuild and you could go have a chance to win.

Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
Well, not, you're gonna have to have a chance to win. There,
same heightst same house, same neighbors, you know, kids in
the same schools. Yeah he's a lifer now, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Mean, look and if that's what makes him happy. Then cool,
you know, cool, cool, good for him. I just I
think it is something that those who are just everyday
people who watch this stuff. I think it's something that
we think about and wonder about, you know, like it's
a fun thing.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
To daydream about.

Speaker 2 (01:57:56):
If somebody ever offered you that, I do think it'd
be like, what the hell's the difference between forty five
million and fifty million? I go to the place you
want to go.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
I think he did.

Speaker 3 (01:58:10):
Well, then he shouldn't have said what he said in
the first place.

Speaker 4 (01:58:12):
Well if he doesn't say it, does he get the
extension like this?

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Probably he's Miles figured you just said he's Lebron James.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
What do they do it now?

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
Though I know I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:58:24):
Right, we all saw what Max Crosby got. So he's like,
wait a minute, hmm, wait a second.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Well that didn't that this didn't start after.

Speaker 5 (01:58:35):
I know, I know maxis ago, but now the conversation
is different, right, Like he turned down the invitation to
talk to the owner.

Speaker 4 (01:58:45):
No, I'm good And if.

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
They and if they did, I thought that was the
other way around.

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
If no, the owner I wanted to talk to him
and he was like, no.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
I think he wanted to talk to the owner and
the owner said, no, you can talk to the GM.

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
That's the way I read that, Stuf Way. I could
be wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:59:01):
I could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Yeah, anyway, we both could be wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:59:03):
That's neither here nor there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
That should be that should be the name of our show.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:59:10):
But but I'll say, look, for whatever the reason, he's
locked in highest paid non football player, non quarterback player ever.
Shout out to him, congratulations, Now do something with it,
uh said.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
We're gonna have a lot more moves to talk about
next week. Man, it's gonna be a big week.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
Looking forward to it for it from Salama, Mark Willard,
thank you very much for listening.

Speaker 3 (01:59:35):
Stay right here,

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